Second Projects - 3-D Stained Glass Flowers or Bugs

This project was designed to stretch the students' creative side and learn how to turn a flat project into a 3-D project quickly.  Students could choose from a rose bud stick, a ladybug stick or insect with legs, or a heart memo holder.  All of the items used recycled copper wire from an air-conditioning installation.  We took the left over wire and stripped the coating off and used the copper wire as the legs or sticks.  In working with the tools for stained glass, students learned that a liquid flux was needed in order for the tin/lead solder to stick to the copper foil and wire.  Chemical bonds were responsible for this "sticking" process.  Not all students completed the project on time.  Most of these were sold around Valentine's Day.  A few were added to a recycled bottle that was turned into a vase.  We added some pathos plants and a glass stick and made several teachers' birthdays special!